I’m forever picking up a tea towel (why TF are they called that?) off the floor from in front of my oven.
Could you please share a pic of how this fastening works? Does the button attach to the crochet part somehow?
I think nearly everybody’s grandma made these things.
Strictly, a “tea towel” needs to be not terry cloth. Terry cloth towels are either dishtowels or kitchen towels. But lotsa people use those 3 words interchangeably.
MIL said she heard them emptying the apartment dumpsters at 6:30 this morning. She was not impressed…
Hey, don’t poop on my illusions!!!
OK, home. I think we got all but one item out of the old apartment that belongs in the new one. FCD brought the little microwave off the boat for MIL to use, since her new apt doesn’t have one. I took her grocery shopping and finally got to head back here about 1:30-ish. BIL will be without his car for a week or so - we’ll see how many trips I’ll have to make with one or the other of them.
MIL’s across the hall neighbor has come by at least twice to introduce herself. She apparently can’t remember from one day to the next that she has a new neighbor. She’s a nice lady, but obviously she has some memory issues.
Interrupted to meet FCD at the car shop - his brakes are doing bad $$$ things. Just back from there. Time to chill.
Yup, that’s how they are! I had no idea they were a common/widespread thing, I only ever saw them at my parents’ house and now at mine. So much for me thinking my grandma was oh-so clever and creative… (I jest. 
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I think I had the only grandmothers in the universe who neither baked nor crocheted/knitted.
Well, I never saw them before, so I think your grandma is very clever indeed!
I’m just counting down the next two weeks. I’m hoping when school is done, I’ll have less chaos.
Niner, new friends are always the best. I was talking about exactly this with MFN this morning. Sex is definitely nothing to sneeze at, but just sex with no other compatability… not a relationship builder at all!
As for Arkham, I love it! I lose about a often as I win, and I haven’t played solo mode yet (even 2 characters can be tough). Being a cooperative game, playing two characters shouldn’t be too tough if you wanted to go that way. I’ll ask Hubby for more single player suggestions. He’s always looking.
That just isn’t right! I’m somewhere in between follower and leader. I usually just don’t have an opinion on things so I go along to get along. But when something is dropped in my lap, then I expect people to put up or shut up. I can be a bit of a bitch sometimes.
I love doing puzzles! I haven’t been able to for a very long time though. First it was the cats messing everything up, then the kids. And I don’t care that BtY is 14, he is still a whirling dervish through this house. Once they are out of the house, I will again be puzzled.
And this is why y’all are my people…
I completely get this. It’s been the same thing with my Dad. The weather clearing and getting stuff done around this house this weekend really turned a corner with him. I’m hoping that both our stubborn parents will be more energized and have us worrying for nothing.
Storytime was great, as usual. I love these kids, and I’m starting to get to know who’s who, which is always good. Stopped at the grocery store to pick up more stuff than I should have. Now I’m resting until it’s time for school to be over. I cannot wait for life to slow down!
I’m in a snarky kind of mood but I think I’ll just think snarky thoughts instead of typing them. Glad you had a yummy breakfast.
We’ve always gotten our deposits back. You’ll be fine!
I think it’s a Polish Babcia thing. Neither of mine crocheted or knitted and I’m trying to remember if there was any baking, but nope, coming up empty on that as well. But Babcia on the farm was an excellent cook! Loved her pierogies and chruscikis.
I put a pork loin in the slow cooker after lovingly rubbing it all over with BBQ rub. I’ll bake a sweet tater. Unfortunately no cabbage so can’t make cole slaw but I bought 5 small cans of Bush’s baked beans on Saturday so I’ll open one up. Although not the vegetarian one; that one’s for my SIL.
The lawn guy is here with his tractor. Today he’ll smooth out the front yard and put down soil. He’ll try to bring the sod mañana.
I have two, 1-gallon, glass apple juice jugs. I don’t remember if I bought apple juice since I moved up here, or if I brought them from L.A., or both. I’ve been saving them to make sun tea. Well, I cleaned the mildew and algae out of one of them last year, and filled it with a bleach solution. I emptied the bleach and rinsed the jug a couple/few months ago. Today I rinsed it again and put it out on the deck with tea bags in it.
Coincidentally, the Spousal Unit also made tea. She uses hot water in a pitcher and lets it steep. She also puts sugar in it. *ick* 
Dammit, Kitten, you know curiosity killed the cat!
I guarantee any behavior involving poop, illusions or not, will result in one not receiving back one’s deposit.
Heh. “Deposit.”
I have foreseen my own future.
Me, ancient, decrepit, leaning on walker: “Hi! It’s so nice to meet you!”
Me, inside: “Why are they looking at me all funny?”
If you sneeze during sex, for more than four hours, please consult your doctor.
Oh, I know your kids already! Here’s a quick cheat sheet:
“You there!”
“Hey, you!”
“Yo, kid!”
“Well, hi!”
“Well, hi there!”
… and everyone’s favorite rascal, “OY! NO! STOPPIT!”
There, there’s a half-dozen from your roster right there.
{ dusts off palms }
My work here is done.
Howdy Y’all from the church house! Stuff is prepped and we are out on the patio quaffin’ beerverages. Will get the N. O.T.s in the oven soon. I love the convection oven in the kitchen.
Cat_Glove there is a lady’s group that meets up to do stuff. They’re goin’ out for pizza this evenin’. There’s also a stitch and bitch group that meets weekly.
Oh no Monkey, are you allright???
Perhaps I was thinking something like:
It’s not like you’re making minimum wage
Or less than minimum wage along with some tips
and/or
Your pockets are likely deeper than all other mumpers
Perhaps.
I am eating medicinal ice cream (Ben and Jerry’s topped caramel brownie swirl) and the ICE CREAM MAN IS DRIVING DOWN THE STREET. I’ll stop him as he passes by (turns up DLR and VH). Medicinal because I had a shoulder arthrogram. Contrast was injected into my shoulder joint then I had an MRI.
shoe, you’re in a particularly silly mood today, aren’t you? 
I’ll just say that if my lover started sneezing, I’d won’t if they were allergic to me!
And the kids… there are definitely a lot of those there! My go to for all kids’ whose names I’m not sure of is “kiddo”.
What does it say about me that I’ve been calling my younger sister “kiddo” for over thirty five years? 
Not Our Sunny – sunny weather, not Mumper Sunny Daze.
Similarly, NOT’s: Not Our Taters – potatoes, not Mumper Taters.
Thank you for reminding me that I own one (1) brownie, and some (?) coffee ice cream.
I need to put these two resources together.
Well, it took an earlier brain fart to find out what today’s brain fart was. Left my Dial Body Wash at the gym on Friday (they should have quite a collection by now from me) so went to Kroger to pick up another and…saw the bananas I had completely forgotten to pick up this morning. So two for the price of one…
Soccer was rained out, they closed the park just about the time I got there, so decided to pig out at Krystal’s (the southern version of White Castle) for dinner. Don’t want to get on a scale, between yesterday and today many calories and not much exercise (pool was still cold).
Dicey, sounds like an interesting day. Enjoy the prep for the colonoscopy (NOT!!)
Pilot, sounds like a fun day with the kids. And a slightly frustrating one with the car.
Niner, glad the dating scene is going well for you. And appropriate appendages crossed on the new job.
talkie, hope Boss #5 hangs around for awhile.
Cookie, hope your belly-achin’ gets something accomplished on the washers.
Sunny!!! Good to see you around the place again. And kudos on adopting a dog that truly needs it; hope Akiko adjusts well.
Flyboy, hope the new, improved yard looks good when they’re done.
wet one, good ice cream never needs a reason, medicinal or otherwise. Glad the MRI went as planned. So shoe, enjoy the brownie and ice cream mix.
OK, double cheese Krystals have been consumed and evening sloth and internettin’ are now on the agenda. All y’all take care.
baker, I’m a fair hand at baking (bread, cakes, rolls, etc), but great pie crust has always eluded me.
hippy, when I was in HS, I worked part time at a restaurant that was attached to a livestock auction barn. We had both beef and pork Manhattans (some would call them hot beef or pork sandwiches) on the menu and they were quite popular.
niner, my mom used to do those crocheted tea towels. I’ve done them too back in the day. Sis, OtOH, has made an improvement on it. She crochets the button loop onto a round shower curtain ring so’s you can hang any kitchen towel from it without it going on the floor when you open the oven.
My brain fart this last weekend was leaving the back burner (the one where the tea kettle lives) on low overnight. I didn’t notice it until the next morning when it was warm when I picked it up to fill it for the morning’s French press pot.
I made Nelson’s dental appointment for the 25th. I need to swing by the vet’s office sometime this week to give them the down payment (little booger’s dental work is more expensive than mine).
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
We are home from men’s night. A good crowd on hand, and as usual, we solved all the world’s problems, but no one ever listens to us. I had steak left over (et too many snausages dipped in spicy mustard) so steak and aigs for breakin’ of fast tomorrow. Win-Win!
Before I retired, a client noticed that I was carrying what looked like a brand new cane and told me that I had wasted my money buying it when I could get one for free just by going to any grocery store and saying that I had left mine hanging on my shopping cart. Apparently they had so many in the lost and found that they would hand them out to anyone who wanted one, no questions asked.
Apparently this also works for phone chargers and hotels.
I’ll bet your gym has a huge box full of lost body washes just waiting to be claimed. If you are iffy about the idea of using someone else’s, just write your name on your bottle in big red letters to make it easy to pick out from the crowd.
Hurry for hearing from Sunny! I hope new dog works out well, hard luck cases always seem to turn out to be the sweetest pets.
I still have the last one MIL made for me. I don’t use it anymore, but I keep it because.
Hubs has been having many “senior moments” lately, enough that I’m concerned that he’s going the same way his father did.